There have been some incredible deals on 5D3's, 6D's and lots of high end lenses over the past three months. Unfortunately, I bought most of my gear at much higher prices in the year or so before the discounting began. 5D's are now going for just $400 over what I paid for my 6D in December 2012!

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Lots of people seem happy with them but I'm not. I bought one of their supposed "New In Box" 5D MkIII's before Christmas. What I got was a crushed box, a camera that was obviously a return (factory stickers had been removed, scrape on top LCD), and to top things off, a 5DmkII neck strap! The box crush was not due to shipping (to me at least) as my shipping box had no damage.

They have agreed to refund my purchase price (when the camera arrives), but I'm still out $63 to ship and insure the thing back to them.

I picked up a refurb 5D3 from Canon last year for a little over $2200, weird how a year later I still got a screaming deal compared to what is being offered. The camera has run great for me and I'm so glad I picked it up when I did.